rn in the United States, and
understands what he writes about. At the same time his book gives a fair
and thorough view of the difficulties with which the emigrant to this
country must contend.

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At Pesth, Hungary, is about to appear a biographical work on Hungarian
statesmen and orators who were prominent before the revolutionary
period. Paul Nagy, Eugen Beoethy, Franz Deak, Stephan Bezeredy,
Bartholomaus Szemere, the two Wesselenyis, the two Dionys Pazmandys,
Stephan Szechenyi, and Joseph Eoetvos (the last known in the United
States by translations of his novels), are among the characters
described.

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A new book on the new world is the _Europa ed America_, by Dr. ANT.
CACCIA, an Italian litterateur, who has apparently been in this country
and describes it, as he professes to do, from nature. He says that he
found the people of New-York occupied mainly in making money.

The German authoress FANNY LEWALD, has in press a book entitled _England
und Schottland_ (England and Scotland), made up from the notes of a
journey through those countries. Its publication just at this moment is
for the benefit of the crowds of Germans who are going to the World's
Fair, and who may find in it all sorts of preparatory information. A
specimen chapter published in one of our German papers reads pleasantly.
Fanny Lewald is a phenomenon, of a class of women who know something
about every thing. Nothing is too high or too low to become an object of
consideration to these female Teufelsdroecks, petticoated professors of
"the science of things in general." The intellectual cultivation among
the middle and higher class of society in Prussia, the patronage
bestowed by the court upon learning, the arts, and sciences; the
encouragement to discuss freely every imaginable theme in politics or
religion, with the single exception of the measures of the
administration, all tended to create a taste for mental display in which
it was necessary that women should participate, if they wished to retain
their old position in the social world. In the salons of Berlin,
therefore, women have been heard taking a prominent part in
conversations in which the most abstruse questions in religion,
politics, and general science were discussed. The philosophers, male and
female, debarred by the spy system from any open investigation of
passing political events, revenged themselves by